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RALEIGH — Medicaid spending has increased by nearly 300 percent in North Carolina in just the past two decades. Only reform will prevent Medicaid costs from eating even larger chunks of the state budget in the years ahead. A new John Locke Foundation Policy Report offers that warning.
RALEIGH — North Carolina needs relief from a year-old federal health care reform law that will strain the state's budget, divert resources to Medicaid from other critical needs, and lead to worse health care in the state. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report reaches those conclusions. Today marks the…
Now that incumbents aren’t denying the existence of the hole they’ve dug, they might start by climbing out of it and not digging it deeper.
Most of the Medicaid patients who will no longer be eligible for in-home services were never at significant risk of institutionalization in the first place.
Policing Medicaid fraud is a good idea. But it’s a first step, not the entire journey.
RALEIGH — North Carolinians can expect to spend between 3 percent and 8 percent more on Medicaid if either of the health care bills before Congress becomes law, according to a report released by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
RALEIGH — Congress is finalizing a bill that would expand Medicaid — the government health program for the poor. The federal government and the states share the costs of Medicaid, so any new obligation eventually would be borne, at least in part, by state taxpayers. And so far, Gov. Bev…
North Carolina’s Medicaid caseload would shoot up 44 percent under ObamaCare. Simply put, that would wreak havoc on the state budget.
